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or evil, benefit or harm, belief or unbelief, gratitude or
ingratitude, prosperity or loss, increase or decrease, obedience
or disobedience all is according to His Wisdom and Will,
what He wills occurs and what He does not will does not occur.
There is not a glance of the onlooker nor a stray thought
that is not subject to His Will.
He is the Creator at first, the Restorer, the Doer of whatsoever
He wills. There is none that rescinds His command, and none
that supplements His decrees, and there is no escape for
a worshiper from disobeying Him, except by His Help and Mercy,
and none has power to obey Him except by His Will. Even
ingratitude, prosperity or loss, increase or decrease, obedience
or disobedience all is according to His Wisdom and Will,
what He wills occurs and what He does not will does not occur.
There is not a glance of the onlooker nor a stray thought
that is not subject to His Will.
He is the Creator at first, the Restorer, the Doer of whatsoever
He wills. There is none that rescinds His command, and none
that supplements His decrees, and there is no escape for
a worshiper from disobeying Him, except by His Help and Mercy,
and none has power to obey Him except by His Will. Even